Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
arr FRESH TRAVELLER.
,,o story of One Days Experience In
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s,ory of One Days Experience In
1'"' a Eatl,cay Carriage.
cha was woman of perhaps thirty
rears and she was taking her first
w w in a railway carriage. She was
ns and evidently had never been, in
w. fashionable swim. Although, wo-
sn.1ke, she had made prodigious
garts to blossom forth in q stunning
yelling suit of steel-gray stuff, the
.neral tone of her makeup was
.;m;tiye in the superlative degree. In
hat remote corner of the earth she had
-, kept from the civilizing influences
travel was point concerning which
ana of us who were passengers with
~ dared hazard guess. She was as
ttenish, as restless, as delighted, and
"tresh" as any misunderstanding
.ssarine of II going home for her
rst vacation. The neatly uniformed
nd shiny-skinned porter of our car in
Lrested her vastly. She watched that
rnerienced tourists movements with
bsorbing attention as if making a study
the art of blase travelling. She took
mental inventory of all articles of
ersonal adornment which the ladies of
Lr party had in sight, and then for
shile fell to contemplating her own
rson and its adornments with obvious
s;sfaction. A convenient panel mir
in the parlor car was her boon of
pons during the whole journey She
anted the loiterers at the stations in
he towns and cities through which we
,ssed to know that she was on the
ain, with which ambitious purpose
be bounced out of her seat at every
op, fastened to the platform and put
her most compassionate and superior
ok as she gazed at those same un-
pppy loiterers whom hard fate had
ecreed must remain at home that day.
he had way of initiating and futter-
,g her ample drapery and setting
own into it that was suggestive of
irlhood's cheese-making days. They
E.iled at her, those wearied women
Ito we're used to riding on the rail, but
may be that they envied her the fine
ursts of youthful feeling with which
be regarded even the trivial and COM
bon-place incidents of the trip. There
e1tainly was sufficient variety in her
lovements during the first half day to
muse her fellow travellers, but after
inner (of which she ate with inspiring
eEsl she took another turn. With
ernose tlattened against the window,
be sat for two dreadful hours and
Trimmed rat-tat-rataplan on the
lass. An old gentleman opposite her
flo Lad hurried down to the train that
Forming without his accustomed shave
Jas bored. There was not the smallest
oubt of that. He fidgeted painfully
tl now and again he plunged visual
psger clear through the heart Of his
s-a-uis, to which assaults she was ex-
peratingly insensible. In time the
st of us became so much concerned in
e old gentleman's writings as to
bite forget that we too were bored by
e unsuppressible Miss Fresh, and for
lie on mile we watched those two
It'll ever-growing wonder as to what
IN the inevitable catastrophe would
ke.
About o'clock she Strengthened her.
If up in her seat and with pious alb
rtion sang in voice that Love itself
nst have turned from with profane
pjurgation: -
Come to Jesus,
Come to Jesus,
Come to Jesus
Just now."
Those lines she repeated some scores
times in the same monotonously
splng voice until at last the old gen
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